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Carbon Mapping Breakthrough

By Guest PostSeptember 8, 2010Environmentairborne-laser technology, amazon forest, amazonia, carbon stocks, carbon storage, carnegie institution, emissions, forest degradation, geology, global ecology, greg asner, lidar system, madre de dios, minam, peru, peruvian amazon, peruvian ministry of the environment, red, reduced emissions from deforestation and degradation, satellite mapping, vegetation types, world wildlife fund

Palo Alto, CA — By integrating satellite mapping, airborne-laser technology, and ground-based plot surveys, scientists from the Carnegie Institution’s Department of Global Ecology, with colleagues from the World Wildlife Fund and in coordination with the Peruvian Ministry of the Environment (MINAM), have revealed the first high-resolution maps of carbon locked up in tropical forest vegetation and emitted by land-use practices.

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‘Arctic Climate May be More Sensitive to Warming than Thought’

By Guest PostJuly 6, 2010Environmentanthropogenic greenhouse, Arctic, ashley ballantyne, atmospheric, beaver pond site, british columbia, canada, carbon dioxide, dara finney, ecosystem, ellesmere island, geology, natalia rybczynski, permineralization, pliocene, strathcona fiord, vancouver

A new study shows the Arctic climate system may be more sensitive to greenhouse warming than previously thought, and that current levels of Earth’s atmospheric carbon dioxide may be high enough to bring about significant, irreversible shifts in Arctic ecosystems.

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